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The Ten Worst Products of the Year
WaZiX writes "Not sure what you want to buy for christmas? Well me neither, but PCMag has an interesting article on what they consider to be the 10 worst products of the year, so at least you know what not to buy. Helpful article that picked out products from different categories such as PDA's, Notebooks and MP3 players."
He also mentions that it doesn't have a DVD writer which will *not* allow for the "off-loading of files".
Well, I know plenty of people that don't have 40GB HDs and no DVD writer. Some people don't even have a DVD-ROM drive. Most people interested in the eMac line are probably low end users that aren't going to be "off-loading" great amounts of data to permanent backup anyway.
I should also add that I know somebody who has an eMac (which he bought for video editing... He uses an external firewire drive for higher-capacity storage) and he's been playing the very hottest of "this fall's hottest games" (World of Warcraft) on it and has been very pleased with the performance.
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The low-end eMac is a perfectly fine entry-level machine. It can't burn DVDs, but it can burn CD-R/RW discs. I've got a client with a dozen eMacs, and they don't feel slow to me when I work on them. It takes a looooong time for the average home user to fill up a 40GB HDD (on a machine that can't get pwned and become some Russian kid's private warez storage space, anyway). The only legitimate gripe he could really have made, he didn't make-- and that's that it should come with more than 256MB of RAM standard.
~Philly
No way the Slashdot subscription is the best way to read the article before it gets slashdotted. Plus it reduces the number of Lame Attemps to get first posts. Increases the chance that the first posts are actually insightful and are on topic.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
a $799 eMac (where the "e" stands for "economy", I guess).
Actually, the e stands for "education."
The eMac was only ever intended to be a school computer. That's why it's really heavy, really sturdy, has a cheap-ish but rugged screen, and has the power button hidden on the back of it.
It just happened to turn out that a lot of consumers thought it would be a nifty machine for other situations where the LCD-based iMac was not really called for, and Apple decided, after the fact, to make it available.
I use one in my music studio with a MOTU DSP as my main record-to-HD system. I like that it's whisper-quiet thanks to the big slow-moving cooling fan yet still fast enough to run my multi-track recording software. Also, it fits nicely on top of my audio equipment rack.
Would I use it for a game PC? Nah. I know from seeing other people game with them that it can run a lot of games okay, but already I have a cheap home-brew PC for games.
It's all about the right tool for the job, as far as I'm concerned, and the eMac happens to fill a useful niche or two out there.
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